Having spent a lot of my youth exploring different music, I have always had a soft spot for the Cajuns. The music of the swamps of Louisiana, USA has always seemed evocative of good times, good food and copious quantities of Bourbon. Check out the music of Balfa Toujours, Jo-El Sonnier, Beausoleil or Canray Fontenot [...]

I am aware that there may be some of you out there who assume I get all my ideas from the The Big Boy’s Book of Wizard Words and I won’t spoil things by confirming or denying it. I do, however, like words and their usage – so anything that pops up on the World [...]

A malapropism (mal-a-prop-izm) is a phrase in which one or more of the words is substituted with another, rendering the phrase or sentence completely nonsensical. The origin of the word is from Richard Sheridan’s Restoration comedy The Rivals, in which one of the characters, Mrs Malaprop, makes such mistakes on a regular basis. Her name [...]